Announcements

• Here is the final exam study guide.
• Check out blog posts by Nemanja Memarovic about the presentations on www.eceblogger.com.
• Here is what you need to email me as deliverables for your project.
• Here is the project presentation schedule.

Reading Assignments

• January 28:
  • Textbook, Chapter 3
  • Gordon E. Peterson, Harold L. Barney, "Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America -- March 1952 -- Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 175-184
• January 30:
  • Johan Sundberg, "The Acoustics of the Singing Voice," Scientific American, March 1977
• February 1:
  • Review links on del.icio.us/andrewkun tagged "speechprocessing."
• February 4:
  • Clifford Nass et al. "Improving Automotive Safety by Pairing Driver Emotion and Car Voice Emotion," CHI 2005
• February 6:
  • Textbook, Section 4.4.3 (and any other parts of Chapter 4 you need in order to understand 4.4.3)
  • Textbook, Chapter 5
• February 13:
  • John Makhoul, "Linear Prediction: A Tutorial Review," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 63, No. 4, April 1975 - on reserve in CEPS Library
• February 27:
  • Textbook, Chapter 6
• March 3:
  • Alan V. Oppenheim, "Speech Analysis-Synthesis System Based on Homomorphic Filtering," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 45, Number 2, 1969

Homework Assignments
Turn in homework assignments in Word document format. The document should be well formatted, mixing the graphs and explanations as requested in the assignment, with no handwritten or hand drawn items. Email the document to me at my UNH address. If applicable, include in your email all the Matlab, and/or other files (e.g. speech files), that I would need to recreate your results.

Assignments are due at class time on the due date. Late assignments will not be accepted.

• HW 1, due February 15:
  • Textbook exercises: 3.17, 3.18, 3.19 (companion website is at http://authors.phptr.com/quatieri/).
  • Reproduce Figure 2 and 3 from Gordon E. Peterson, Harold L. Barney, "Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels." Record your own voice. You can use Praat or WaveSurfer to get formant frequencies. See my del.icio.us page for links to these tools. Extend your work with something that you think would be interesting to do. If you speak a language other than English, show formants for vowels in that language (it may and may not be practical to show them all). Another idea would be to find a way to represent the third formant in your plots.
• HW 2, due February 29
  • Textbook exercises: 5.23, 5.24
• HW 3, due March 14
  • Textbook exercise 6.21
• HW 4 - attendance required on April 9
  • Attend Kevin Short's CEPS Lecture Series talk, 4-5 PM in Iddles L101 (arrive early for refreshments to be served at 3:30 PM).
• HW 5, due May 12
  • Textbook exercises: 7.21, 7.23
    
    

Links

• Check out www.eceblogger.com for upcoming posts about the course and topics related to speech signal processing.
• I keep a list of interesting links on my del.icio.us page. You can find links related to this course here. As the semester progresses, this list will grow. If you have a del.icio.us account we can share relevant links - feel free to add me as a contact.